Shani Shastri, M.D. Associate Professor School Medical School Department Internal Medicine You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Shani Shastri, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Nephrology. Originally from India, Dr. Shastri completed her medical education at K.J. Somaiya Medical Center in Mumbai, India. She holds a master's degree in public health from the University of Loma Linda in California. She completed internal medicine residency training at the University of Massachusetts and completed advanced training through a fellowship in nephrology at Tufts Medical Center. During her fellowship, she also earned a master’s degree in clinical research with a focus on epidemiology and outcomes. Dr. Shastri's research interests include investigations of aging and kidney disease and cardiovascular disease coupled with kidney disease. Education Medical School K.J. Somaiya Medical College, India (1997) Medical School Loma Linda University (1999) Internship Frankford Hospital of Philadelphia (2005), Transitional Year Residency University of Massachusetts Medical Center (2008), Internal Medicine Medical School Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences (2010), Research Fellowship Tufts Medical Center (2011), Nephrology Research Interest Aging Cardiovascular Outcomes in Kidney Disease Epidemiology and Outcomes in Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology and Outcomes in Hemodialysis Publications Featured Publications Chronic kidney desease in octogenarians Shastri S, Tighiouart H, Katz R, Rifkin D, Fried L, Shlipak M, Newman A, Sarnak MJ Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology June 2011 6 (6) 1410-17 Cystatin C and albuminuria as risk factors for incident chronic kidney disease: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis Shastri S, Katz R, Shlipak M, Kestenbaum B, Peralta C, Kramer H, Jacobs D, de Boer I, Cushman M, Siscovick D, Sarnak M American Journal of Kidney Disease June 2011 57 (6) 832-40 Effect of beta blockers on sudden cardiac death: A propensity score analysis of the HEMO study Tangri N, Shastri S, Tighiouart H, Beck GJ, Cheung A, Eknoyan G, Sarnak M American Journal of Kidney Disease Dec 2011 58 (6) 939-45 Predictors of sudden cardiac: A competing risk model in the HEMO Study Shastri S, Tangri N, Tighiouart H, Cheung A, Beck G, Eknoyan G, Sarnak M Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology 2011 November 10 Obesity, inflammatory and thrombotic markers, and major clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with COVID-19 in the US. Friedman AN, Guirguis J, Kapoor R, Gupta S, Leaf DE, Timsina LR, Obesity (Silver Spring) 2021 Jun Characteristics and Outcomes of Individuals With Pre-existing Kidney Disease and COVID-19 Admitted to Intensive Care Units in the United States. Flythe JE, Assimon MM, Tugman MJ, Chang EH, Gupta S, Shah J, Sosa MA, Renaghan AD, Melamed ML, Wilson FP, Neyra JA, Rashidi A, Boyle SM, Anand S, Christov M, Thomas LF, Edmonston D, Leaf DE, Am J Kidney Dis 2021 02 77 2 190-203.e1 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in patients with severe respiratory failure from COVID-19. Shaefi S, Brenner SK, Gupta S, O'Gara BP, Krajewski ML, Charytan DM, Chaudhry S, Mirza SH, Peev V, Anderson M, Bansal A, Hayek SS, Srivastava A, Mathews KS, Johns TS, Leonberg-Yoo A, Green A, Arunthamakun J, Wille KM, Shaukat T, Singh H, Admon AJ, Semler MW, Hernán MA, Mueller AL, Wang W, Leaf DE, Intensive Care Med 2021 02 47 2 208-221 Idiopathic hypokalemia in lupus nephritis - A newly recognized entity Adomako EA , Bilal S, Liu Y, Malik A, Van Buren PN, Shastri S and Sambandam KK Kidney360 2021 Association Between Early Treatment With Tocilizumab and Mortality Among Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19. Gupta S, Wang W, Hayek SS, Chan L, Mathews KS, Melamed ML, Brenner SK, Leonberg-Yoo A, Schenck EJ, Radbel J, Reiser J, Bansal A, Srivastava A, Zhou Y, Finkel D, Green A, Mallappallil M, Faugno AJ, Zhang J, Velez JCQ, Shaefi S, Parikh CR, Charytan DM, Athavale AM, Friedman AN, Redfern RE, Short SAP, Correa S, Pokharel KK, Admon AJ, Donnelly JP, Gershengorn HB, Douin DJ, Semler MW, Hernán MA, Leaf DE, JAMA Intern Med 2021 01 181 1 41-51 Outcomes of critically ill solid organ transplant patients with COVID-19 in the United States. Molnar MZ, Bhalla A, Azhar A, Tsujita M, Talwar M, Balaraman V, Sodhi A, Kadaria D, Eason JD, Hayek SS, Coca SG, Shaefi S, Neyra JA, Gupta S, Leaf DE, Kovesdy CP, Am J Transplant 2020 11 20 11 3061-3071 Results 1-10 of 25 1 2 3 Next Last Books Featured Books Assessment of Renal Function. In Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, 4th Ed. Stevens LA, Shastri S, Levey AS (2009). Major Nonglomerular Disorders of the kidney. In Andreoli and Carpenter?s Cecil Essentials of Medicine Rajora N, Shastri S, Koowal P, Saxena R (2021). Major Nonglomerular Disorders of the kidney. In Andreoli and Carpenter?s Cecil Essentials of Medicine Rajora N, Shastri S, Saxena R (2015). Honors & Awards John Insall AwardKnee Society (2002) Albert E. Barnett Health Administration Scholarship (2000) Jan Hirsh Health Administration Scholarship (2000) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Society of Nephrology (2008)
